Alva Cann was born on 1 May 1840, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. She married Capt. George Edward Morrell on 6 July 1862. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901 and Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. She died on 2 May 1926, in Brooklyn, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Brooklyn Cemetery, Brooklyn, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
English (Devon): habitational name from Cann, a place in Dorset, named from Old English canna ‘can, cup’, used in the transferred sense of a deep valley, or a topographic name from the same word used elsewhere in southwestern England. Alternatively, from Middle English canne ‘can, vessel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name denoting a maker of vessels for holding liquids.
Irish: shortened form of McCann .
Americanized form of German Kann and Kahn .
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